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The Periodic Table Review Sheet

Directions: Answer all the questions into your notebook to get ready for the test on the Periodic Table (Chapter 4). Make

sure you know how to determine the number of protons, neutrons, electrons, atomic mass, atomic number, element

symbol and name for the elements on the periodic table. Do not write on this sheet please. Reduce, reuse, recycle –

Especially Carbon(C) based materials.

Periodic Table

1. Elements in the periodic table are arranged by their unique _______ with elements in the same families

tending to have the same ______ as one another and the same number of ______ electrons.

2. List three characteristics of metals.

3. List three characteristics of nonmetals.

4. What family are the most reactive nonmetals located? What family are the most reactive metals located?

5. Most (75-80%) of the elements in the periodic table are (metals or nonmetals).

6. Where are the metals in the periodic table? Where are the nonmetals located?

7. What are the elements called that act both as metals and nonmetals and where are they located?

8. Rows are called ____________ and the vertical columns are called __________ or ___________.

9. The atomic number tells you the number of ___________ in the nucleus (and the number of ________

moving around the nucleus).

10. If you take the atomic mass and subtract the atomic number it will give you the number of _________ in

the nucleus.

11. What two subatomic particles are in the nucleus and which one subatomic particle is far outside the

nucleus? What are the charges of each of these subatomic particles?

12. Why are the noble gases noble? In other words, why are the noble gases so stable and do not usually

react with any other elements? (hint: 8 is great)

13. What does “8 is great” mean?

14. As you go from left to right on the periodic table the metals tend to become (more/less) reactive? (Hint:

What family has the most reactive metals?)

15. The chemical symbols of all elements have the first letter that is a _____________ letter and the second

letter (if it has a second letter) that is always _____________.

16. Atoms in the periodic table are not arranged by size, but by the number of ________ in their nucleus

(hint: The atomic number).

The Periodic Table Review Sheet